In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
Resources:
The Histories of Herodotus: http://goo.gl/I1TM9u
Plato: http://goo.gl/GEcfWX
Plays of Aristophanes: http://goo.gl/xzb9Ff
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DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations.
Researchers analysed genetic data from skeletons dating to the Bronze Age, a period marked by the emergence of writing, complex urban planning and magnificent art and architecture.
These ancient Aegean people were mostly descended from farmers who had settled the region thousands of years earlier.
But they showed signs of genetic - and possibly cultural - contact with people to the north and to the east.
Dr Iosif Lazaridis, from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, and colleagues focussed on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC, and the Mycenaean culture, which was existed across Greece from 1,600 -1,100 BC.
"They're important because they are the first known civilizations in Europe that had writing and a level of complexity that was not present in earlier cultures...It's always been a puzzle: where did these people come from and how did they create this amazing culture," Dr Lazaridis told BBCNews.
With ancient DNA we can now begin to answer this question."
Dr Lazaridis explained that most of the people who created these civilizations appear to be local - deriving between 62% and 86% of their ancestry from people who introduced agriculture to Europe from Anatolia (modern Turkey) in Neolithic times, starting from about 7,000 years ago.
This fits with previous evidence from ancient DNA studies, showing that there was a major migration into Europe from this region during the Bronze Age. These nomadic livestock herders from the Steppe had a major impact on the gene pools of Northern and Central Europe. But the influence of Steppe migrants on populations from southern Europe - including Greece - was much more modest.
The researchers don't know exactly when the northern and eastern influxes of people occurred, but both genetic components are missing from the stone age farmers who inhabited Greece during the Neolithic. This suggests that these later waves of migration arrived in either the third or fourth millennium BC - a time gap for which the researchers lack ancient DNA data.
Dr Lazaridis says that both waves of migration might have acted as "cultural disruptors".
"The migrants could be the bearers of innovation... a vehicle through which some new elements of culture arrived in Greece," he explained.
By contrast, the researchers found no evidence for proposed migrations to Greece from ancient Egypt or from the areas of the eastern Mediterranean occupied by the Phoenician sea-faring culture.
The work could also provide clues to the origin of Greek language. Like the majority of languages spoken in Europe today, Greek belongs to a family known as Indo-European. The members of this language family share common features of vocabulary and grammar.
But how and when Indo-European speech spread across Europe remains a subject of debate. Some scholars believe the languages were introduced by the first farmers migrating from the Near East.
Other researchers believe they were spread later, during the Bronze Age, by the herders who migrated west from the Steppe.
But the much more minor influx of Steppe people into Greece compared with northern Europe has led some to conclude that this migration could not have effected a change in language. This might imply that progenitors of Greek - and perhaps other Indo-European languages - were already established in the Aegean by the time the Steppe people arrived.
While the Mycenaeans are known to have spoken an early form of Greek, the earliest recorded language spoken by the Minoan people on Crete - known as Linear A - can be read but not translated. This implies that it belonged either to a distinct branch of Indo-European or to an entirely different language family.

published:03 Aug 2017

views:332

published:14 Oct 2014

views:2008

Website: http://www.uprs.edu
During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of Being described a period roughly from 800-300 BC when many great teachers were alive and presenting consciousness-altering visions of truth, reality and meaning. An important addition to course material will be a consideration of the Eleusinian and DelphicMysteries and their relation to a new vision of consciousness.
As a course designed for beginning graduate work, The Birth of Consciousness in EarlyGreek Thought will focus first on the fragments of those early Greek thinkers whose efforts to explain the world gave us valuable clues to the beginnings of Western philosophy. Students will examine the fragments of three such thinkers: Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras. The desired outcomes will include a basic grasp of these fragments and their contribution to the history of consciousness. In addition, the final weeks of the course will examine several important dialogues by Plato to see how this later thinker filled out the earlier fragments to develop a new concept of what it means to be a conscious individual.
Richard G. Geldard, PhD — Dramatic Literature and Classics, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, Doctoral Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Author of ten books on Early Greek philosophy and the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.rgbooks.com

published:27 Sep 2011

views:5361

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/
For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
http://www.ancientlyre.com
Many thanks for watching!

published:05 Oct 2010

views:1009229

For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the Open University, Dr Sean McElvoy from Varndean College, Brighton and actor Michael Grady-Hall from the cast of Antigone.
This film includes performance footage from the 2012 National Theatre production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, starring Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker in the title role.
This film was made and directed by ChloeWhite for the National Theatre.
Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre:
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover
Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london
iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes
TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre

This is my second YouTube video, so it's a bit rough. Apologies in advance! Check out some of my later videos for more smoothness.
For a good intro to classical Greek philosophy see:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/greekphi/
-------------------------
Please visit the Secular Buddhist Association!
http://secularbuddhism.org
My page can be found here:
http://secularbuddhism.org/author/doug/

published:13 Mar 2017

views:636

published:20 Sep 2017

views:160

The Ancient Greeks: The Beginnings of Greek Civilization-- Created using PowToon -- Freesign up at http://www.powtoon.com/ . Make your own animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation templates help you create animated presentations and animated explainer videos from scratch. Anyone can produce awesome animations quickly with PowToon, without the cost or hassle other professional animation services require.

Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean Basin and Europe. For this reason Classical Greece is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture and is considered as the cradle of Western civilization. However, unlike Western culture, the Ancient Greeks did not think in terms of race.

The language of the Hellenistic phase is known as Koine (common), while the language from the late period onward features no considerable differences from Medieval Greek. Koine is regarded as a separate historical stage of its own, although in its earlier form, it closely resembled the Classical. Prior to the Koine period, Greek of the classic and earlier periods included several regional dialects.

Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of classical Athenian historians, playwrights, and philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the West since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Epic and Classical phases of the language.

The Persians & Greeks: Crash Course World History #5

In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
Resources:
The Histories of Herodotus: http://goo.gl/I1TM9u
Plato: http://goo.gl/GEcfWX
Plays of Aristophanes: http://goo.gl/xzb9Ff
Crash CourseWorld History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set
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DNA clue to origins of early Greek civilization

DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations.
Researchers analysed genetic data from skeletons dating to the Bronze Age, a period marked by the emergence of writing, complex urban planning and magnificent art and architecture.
These ancient Aegean people were mostly descended from farmers who had settled the region thousands of years earlier.
But they showed signs of genetic - and possibly cultural - contact with people to the north and to the east.
Dr Iosif Lazaridis, from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, and colleagues focussed on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC, and the Mycenaean culture, which was existed across Greece from 1,600 -1,100 BC.
"They're important because they are the first known civilizations in Europe that had writing and a level of complexity that was not present in earlier cultures...It's always been a puzzle: where did these people come from and how did they create this amazing culture," Dr Lazaridis told BBCNews.
With ancient DNA we can now begin to answer this question."
Dr Lazaridis explained that most of the people who created these civilizations appear to be local - deriving between 62% and 86% of their ancestry from people who introduced agriculture to Europe from Anatolia (modern Turkey) in Neolithic times, starting from about 7,000 years ago.
This fits with previous evidence from ancient DNA studies, showing that there was a major migration into Europe from this region during the Bronze Age. These nomadic livestock herders from the Steppe had a major impact on the gene pools of Northern and Central Europe. But the influence of Steppe migrants on populations from southern Europe - including Greece - was much more modest.
The researchers don't know exactly when the northern and eastern influxes of people occurred, but both genetic components are missing from the stone age farmers who inhabited Greece during the Neolithic. This suggests that these later waves of migration arrived in either the third or fourth millennium BC - a time gap for which the researchers lack ancient DNA data.
Dr Lazaridis says that both waves of migration might have acted as "cultural disruptors".
"The migrants could be the bearers of innovation... a vehicle through which some new elements of culture arrived in Greece," he explained.
By contrast, the researchers found no evidence for proposed migrations to Greece from ancient Egypt or from the areas of the eastern Mediterranean occupied by the Phoenician sea-faring culture.
The work could also provide clues to the origin of Greek language. Like the majority of languages spoken in Europe today, Greek belongs to a family known as Indo-European. The members of this language family share common features of vocabulary and grammar.
But how and when Indo-European speech spread across Europe remains a subject of debate. Some scholars believe the languages were introduced by the first farmers migrating from the Near East.
Other researchers believe they were spread later, during the Bronze Age, by the herders who migrated west from the Steppe.
But the much more minor influx of Steppe people into Greece compared with northern Europe has led some to conclude that this migration could not have effected a change in language. This might imply that progenitors of Greek - and perhaps other Indo-European languages - were already established in the Aegean by the time the Steppe people arrived.
While the Mycenaeans are known to have spoken an early form of Greek, the earliest recorded language spoken by the Minoan people on Crete - known as Linear A - can be read but not translated. This implies that it belonged either to a distinct branch of Indo-European or to an entirely different language family.

Website: http://www.uprs.edu
During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of Being described a period roughly from 800-300 BC when many great teachers were alive and presenting consciousness-altering visions of truth, reality and meaning. An important addition to course material will be a consideration of the Eleusinian and DelphicMysteries and their relation to a new vision of consciousness.
As a course designed for beginning graduate work, The Birth of Consciousness in EarlyGreek Thought will focus first on the fragments of those early Greek thinkers whose efforts to explain the world gave us valuable clues to the beginnings of Western philosophy. Students will examine the fragments of three such thinkers: Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras. The desired outcomes will include a basic grasp of these fragments and their contribution to the history of consciousness. In addition, the final weeks of the course will examine several important dialogues by Plato to see how this later thinker filled out the earlier fragments to develop a new concept of what it means to be a conscious individual.
Richard G. Geldard, PhD — Dramatic Literature and Classics, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, Doctoral Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Author of ten books on Early Greek philosophy and the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.rgbooks.com

9:49

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/
For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
http://www.ancientlyre.com
Many thanks for watching!

6:54

An Introduction to Greek Theatre

An Introduction to Greek Theatre

An Introduction to Greek Theatre

For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the Open University, Dr Sean McElvoy from Varndean College, Brighton and actor Michael Grady-Hall from the cast of Antigone.
This film includes performance footage from the 2012 National Theatre production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, starring Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker in the title role.
This film was made and directed by ChloeWhite for the National Theatre.
Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre:
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover
Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london
iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes
TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre

Ancient Greek Olympics

Comparing Early Greek and Buddhist Thought

This is my second YouTube video, so it's a bit rough. Apologies in advance! Check out some of my later videos for more smoothness.
For a good intro to classical Greek philosophy see:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/greekphi/
-------------------------
Please visit the Secular Buddhist Association!
http://secularbuddhism.org
My page can be found here:
http://secularbuddhism.org/author/doug/

13:19

Early Classical Greek Art

Early Classical Greek Art

Early Classical Greek Art

4:08

The Beginnings of Greek Civilization

The Beginnings of Greek Civilization

The Beginnings of Greek Civilization

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A History of Philosophy | 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy

Early Greek Science and Philosophy

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Thales of Miletus 625 BC
First Philosopher
Used organized, formal arguments
First Mathematician
Used formal proof method
Learned from Mesopotamians and Egyptians (who kept records only)
First Scientist
“All events, even extraordinary ones, can be explained in natural terms which can be understood by humans.”
Asked why things happened and then tried to find a rational answer
“What is fundamental and does not change?”
Assumed that an order existed
Underlying principle or basic material is called arché in GreekPythagoras 580-500 BC
Invented mathematical notation
Developed system to express equations
Established quantitative calculations
Believed geometry and math could describe all truth and beauty
Truth is described by small whole numbers
Symmetry of the "perfect" body
Example today: Quantum chemistry
Developed a school and "ideal" society
Key geometric relationships
Pythagorean law
Golden mean
Principles of music

24:45

Greek Colonization in the Archaic Period

Greek Colonization in the Archaic Period

Greek Colonization in the Archaic Period

This is the Events of the 730s BC part 2 in our narrative. The Fan of History takes a look at what drove the Greeks to leave their mother cities and travel all over the Mediterranean looking for new homes. We look at the religion, the monetary gain, the conquests and everything else concerning the early Greek colonization movement in the Archaic Period (800-500 BC).
A critical look at the Oracle at Delphi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BobqeU_JxOY
Our show about Greece in the 9th Century BC (right before this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUing_14Qo
Please consider supporting our Fan of History effort by becoming a Patron here: http://www.patreon.com/fanofhistory
World Politics 800BC global overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hnvhIOP0nE
About Greece in the early 9th Century BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUing_14Qo
The beginning of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 911 BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh6zyYssjn8
History of Assyria 3000-1000 BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28o-28fc-t8
The early Neo-Assyrian army (to 745 BC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVV-DDYbKQ
Discuss Ancient History and ask questions to real historians here: http://historum.com/ancient-history/
World Map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NlVs2ndVpA
A music video tribute to Ashurnasirpal II, king of Assyria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dof6PuYsNr0
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Early Greek Civilization

The Persians & Greeks: Crash Course World History #5

In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
Resources:
The Histories of Herodotus: http://goo.gl/I1TM9u
Plato: http://goo.gl/GEcfWX
Plays of Aristophanes: http://goo.gl/xzb9Ff
Crash CourseWorld History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set
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DNA clue to origins of early Greek civilization

DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations.
Researchers analysed genetic data from skeletons dating to the Bronze Age, a period marked by the emergence of writing, complex urban planning and magnificent art and architecture.
These ancient Aegean people were mostly descended from farmers who had settled the region thousands of years earlier.
But they showed signs of genetic - and possibly cultural - contact with people to the north and to the east.
Dr Iosif Lazaridis, from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, and colleagues focussed on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC, and the Mycenaean culture, which was existed across Greece from 1,600 -1,100 BC.
"They're important because they are t...

published: 03 Aug 2017

Early Greek Civilization

Website: http://www.uprs.edu
During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of B...

published: 27 Sep 2011

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/
For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
http://www.ancientlyre.com
Many thanks for...

published: 05 Oct 2010

An Introduction to Greek Theatre

For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the OpenUniver...

Ancient Greek Olympics

Comparing Early Greek and Buddhist Thought

This is my second YouTube video, so it's a bit rough. Apologies in advance! Check out some of my later videos for more smoothness.
For a good intro to classical Greek philosophy see:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/greekphi/
-------------------------
Please visit the Secular Buddhist Association!
http://secularbuddhism.org
My page can be found here:
http://secularbuddhism.org/author/doug/

published: 13 Mar 2017

Early Classical Greek Art

published: 20 Sep 2017

The Beginnings of Greek Civilization

The Ancient Greeks: The Beginnings of Greek Civilization-- Created using PowToon -- Freesign up at http://www.powtoon.com/ . Make your own animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation templates help you create animated presentations and animated explainer videos from scratch. Anyone can produce awesome animations quickly with PowToon, without the cost or hassle other professional animation services require.

A History of Philosophy | 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy

Early Greek Science and Philosophy

Visit our website: http://www.sliderbase.com/
Free PowerPoint Presentations for teaching and learning
Thales of Miletus 625 BC
First Philosopher
Used organized, formal arguments
First Mathematician
Used formal proof method
Learned from Mesopotamians and Egyptians (who kept records only)
First Scientist
“All events, even extraordinary ones, can be explained in natural terms which can be understood by humans.”
Asked why things happened and then tried to find a rational answer
“What is fundamental and does not change?”
Assumed that an order existed
Underlying principle or basic material is called arché in GreekPythagoras 580-500 BC
Invented mathematical notation
Developed system to express equations
Established quantitative calculations
Believed geometry and math could describe all truth a...

published: 26 Jul 2017

Greek Colonization in the Archaic Period

This is the Events of the 730s BC part 2 in our narrative. The Fan of History takes a look at what drove the Greeks to leave their mother cities and travel all over the Mediterranean looking for new homes. We look at the religion, the monetary gain, the conquests and everything else concerning the early Greek colonization movement in the Archaic Period (800-500 BC).
A critical look at the Oracle at Delphi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BobqeU_JxOY
Our show about Greece in the 9th Century BC (right before this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUing_14Qo
Please consider supporting our Fan of History effort by becoming a Patron here: http://www.patreon.com/fanofhistory
World Politics 800BC global overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hnvhIOP0nE
About Greece in the early 9th Ce...

In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
Resources:
The Histories of Herodotus: http://goo.gl/I1TM9u
Plato: http://goo.gl/GEcfWX
Plays of Aristophanes: http://goo.gl/xzb9Ff
Crash CourseWorld History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set
Follow us!
@thecrashcourse
@realjohngreen
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In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
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DNA clue to origins of early Greek civilization

DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations.
Researchers analysed genetic data from skeletons dating to the Bronze Age, a peri...

DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations.
Researchers analysed genetic data from skeletons dating to the Bronze Age, a period marked by the emergence of writing, complex urban planning and magnificent art and architecture.
These ancient Aegean people were mostly descended from farmers who had settled the region thousands of years earlier.
But they showed signs of genetic - and possibly cultural - contact with people to the north and to the east.
Dr Iosif Lazaridis, from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, and colleagues focussed on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC, and the Mycenaean culture, which was existed across Greece from 1,600 -1,100 BC.
"They're important because they are the first known civilizations in Europe that had writing and a level of complexity that was not present in earlier cultures...It's always been a puzzle: where did these people come from and how did they create this amazing culture," Dr Lazaridis told BBCNews.
With ancient DNA we can now begin to answer this question."
Dr Lazaridis explained that most of the people who created these civilizations appear to be local - deriving between 62% and 86% of their ancestry from people who introduced agriculture to Europe from Anatolia (modern Turkey) in Neolithic times, starting from about 7,000 years ago.
This fits with previous evidence from ancient DNA studies, showing that there was a major migration into Europe from this region during the Bronze Age. These nomadic livestock herders from the Steppe had a major impact on the gene pools of Northern and Central Europe. But the influence of Steppe migrants on populations from southern Europe - including Greece - was much more modest.
The researchers don't know exactly when the northern and eastern influxes of people occurred, but both genetic components are missing from the stone age farmers who inhabited Greece during the Neolithic. This suggests that these later waves of migration arrived in either the third or fourth millennium BC - a time gap for which the researchers lack ancient DNA data.
Dr Lazaridis says that both waves of migration might have acted as "cultural disruptors".
"The migrants could be the bearers of innovation... a vehicle through which some new elements of culture arrived in Greece," he explained.
By contrast, the researchers found no evidence for proposed migrations to Greece from ancient Egypt or from the areas of the eastern Mediterranean occupied by the Phoenician sea-faring culture.
The work could also provide clues to the origin of Greek language. Like the majority of languages spoken in Europe today, Greek belongs to a family known as Indo-European. The members of this language family share common features of vocabulary and grammar.
But how and when Indo-European speech spread across Europe remains a subject of debate. Some scholars believe the languages were introduced by the first farmers migrating from the Near East.
Other researchers believe they were spread later, during the Bronze Age, by the herders who migrated west from the Steppe.
But the much more minor influx of Steppe people into Greece compared with northern Europe has led some to conclude that this migration could not have effected a change in language. This might imply that progenitors of Greek - and perhaps other Indo-European languages - were already established in the Aegean by the time the Steppe people arrived.
While the Mycenaeans are known to have spoken an early form of Greek, the earliest recorded language spoken by the Minoan people on Crete - known as Linear A - can be read but not translated. This implies that it belonged either to a distinct branch of Indo-European or to an entirely different language family.

DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations.
Researchers analysed genetic data from skeletons dating to the Bronze Age, a period marked by the emergence of writing, complex urban planning and magnificent art and architecture.
These ancient Aegean people were mostly descended from farmers who had settled the region thousands of years earlier.
But they showed signs of genetic - and possibly cultural - contact with people to the north and to the east.
Dr Iosif Lazaridis, from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, and colleagues focussed on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC, and the Mycenaean culture, which was existed across Greece from 1,600 -1,100 BC.
"They're important because they are the first known civilizations in Europe that had writing and a level of complexity that was not present in earlier cultures...It's always been a puzzle: where did these people come from and how did they create this amazing culture," Dr Lazaridis told BBCNews.
With ancient DNA we can now begin to answer this question."
Dr Lazaridis explained that most of the people who created these civilizations appear to be local - deriving between 62% and 86% of their ancestry from people who introduced agriculture to Europe from Anatolia (modern Turkey) in Neolithic times, starting from about 7,000 years ago.
This fits with previous evidence from ancient DNA studies, showing that there was a major migration into Europe from this region during the Bronze Age. These nomadic livestock herders from the Steppe had a major impact on the gene pools of Northern and Central Europe. But the influence of Steppe migrants on populations from southern Europe - including Greece - was much more modest.
The researchers don't know exactly when the northern and eastern influxes of people occurred, but both genetic components are missing from the stone age farmers who inhabited Greece during the Neolithic. This suggests that these later waves of migration arrived in either the third or fourth millennium BC - a time gap for which the researchers lack ancient DNA data.
Dr Lazaridis says that both waves of migration might have acted as "cultural disruptors".
"The migrants could be the bearers of innovation... a vehicle through which some new elements of culture arrived in Greece," he explained.
By contrast, the researchers found no evidence for proposed migrations to Greece from ancient Egypt or from the areas of the eastern Mediterranean occupied by the Phoenician sea-faring culture.
The work could also provide clues to the origin of Greek language. Like the majority of languages spoken in Europe today, Greek belongs to a family known as Indo-European. The members of this language family share common features of vocabulary and grammar.
But how and when Indo-European speech spread across Europe remains a subject of debate. Some scholars believe the languages were introduced by the first farmers migrating from the Near East.
Other researchers believe they were spread later, during the Bronze Age, by the herders who migrated west from the Steppe.
But the much more minor influx of Steppe people into Greece compared with northern Europe has led some to conclude that this migration could not have effected a change in language. This might imply that progenitors of Greek - and perhaps other Indo-European languages - were already established in the Aegean by the time the Steppe people arrived.
While the Mycenaeans are known to have spoken an early form of Greek, the earliest recorded language spoken by the Minoan people on Crete - known as Linear A - can be read but not translated. This implies that it belonged either to a distinct branch of Indo-European or to an entirely different language family.

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During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of Being described a period roughly from 800-300 BC when many great teachers were alive and presenting consciousness-altering visions of truth, reality and meaning. An important addition to course material will be a consideration of the Eleusinian and DelphicMysteries and their relation to a new vision of consciousness.
As a course designed for beginning graduate work, The Birth of Consciousness in EarlyGreek Thought will focus first on the fragments of those early Greek thinkers whose efforts to explain the world gave us valuable clues to the beginnings of Western philosophy. Students will examine the fragments of three such thinkers: Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras. The desired outcomes will include a basic grasp of these fragments and their contribution to the history of consciousness. In addition, the final weeks of the course will examine several important dialogues by Plato to see how this later thinker filled out the earlier fragments to develop a new concept of what it means to be a conscious individual.
Richard G. Geldard, PhD — Dramatic Literature and Classics, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, Doctoral Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Author of ten books on Early Greek philosophy and the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.rgbooks.com

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During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of Being described a period roughly from 800-300 BC when many great teachers were alive and presenting consciousness-altering visions of truth, reality and meaning. An important addition to course material will be a consideration of the Eleusinian and DelphicMysteries and their relation to a new vision of consciousness.
As a course designed for beginning graduate work, The Birth of Consciousness in EarlyGreek Thought will focus first on the fragments of those early Greek thinkers whose efforts to explain the world gave us valuable clues to the beginnings of Western philosophy. Students will examine the fragments of three such thinkers: Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras. The desired outcomes will include a basic grasp of these fragments and their contribution to the history of consciousness. In addition, the final weeks of the course will examine several important dialogues by Plato to see how this later thinker filled out the earlier fragments to develop a new concept of what it means to be a conscious individual.
Richard G. Geldard, PhD — Dramatic Literature and Classics, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, Doctoral Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Author of ten books on Early Greek philosophy and the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.rgbooks.com

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
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This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
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For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
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For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the Open University, Dr Sean McElvoy from Varndean College, Brighton and actor Michael Grady-Hall from the cast of Antigone.
This film includes performance footage from the 2012 National Theatre production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, starring Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker in the title role.
This film was made and directed by ChloeWhite for the National Theatre.
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For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the Open University, Dr Sean McElvoy from Varndean College, Brighton and actor Michael Grady-Hall from the cast of Antigone.
This film includes performance footage from the 2012 National Theatre production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, starring Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker in the title role.
This film was made and directed by ChloeWhite for the National Theatre.
Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre:
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover
Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london
iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes
TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre

Comparing Early Greek and Buddhist Thought

This is my second YouTube video, so it's a bit rough. Apologies in advance! Check out some of my later videos for more smoothness.
For a good intro to classic...

This is my second YouTube video, so it's a bit rough. Apologies in advance! Check out some of my later videos for more smoothness.
For a good intro to classical Greek philosophy see:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/greekphi/
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This is my second YouTube video, so it's a bit rough. Apologies in advance! Check out some of my later videos for more smoothness.
For a good intro to classical Greek philosophy see:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/greekphi/
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Please visit the Secular Buddhist Association!
http://secularbuddhism.org
My page can be found here:
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The Ancient Greeks: The Beginnings of Greek Civilization-- Created using PowToon -- Freesign up at http://www.powtoon.com/ . Make your own animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation templates help you create animated presentations and animated explainer videos from scratch. Anyone can produce awesome animations quickly with PowToon, without the cost or hassle other professional animation services require.

The Ancient Greeks: The Beginnings of Greek Civilization-- Created using PowToon -- Freesign up at http://www.powtoon.com/ . Make your own animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation templates help you create animated presentations and animated explainer videos from scratch. Anyone can produce awesome animations quickly with PowToon, without the cost or hassle other professional animation services require.

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Thales of Miletus 625 BC
First Philosopher
Used organized, formal arguments
First Mathematician
Used formal proof method
Learned from Mesopotamians and Egyptians (who kept records only)
First Scientist
“All events, even extraordinary ones, can be explained in natural terms which can be understood by humans.”
Asked why things happened and then tried to find a rational answer
“What is fundamental and does not change?”
Assumed that an order existed
Underlying principle or basic material is called arché in GreekPythagoras 580-500 BC
Invented mathematical notation
Developed system to express equations
Established quantitative calculations
Believed geometry and math could describe all truth and beauty
Truth is described by small whole numbers
Symmetry of the "perfect" body
Example today: Quantum chemistry
Developed a school and "ideal" society
Key geometric relationships
Pythagorean law
Golden mean
Principles of music

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Thales of Miletus 625 BC
First Philosopher
Used organized, formal arguments
First Mathematician
Used formal proof method
Learned from Mesopotamians and Egyptians (who kept records only)
First Scientist
“All events, even extraordinary ones, can be explained in natural terms which can be understood by humans.”
Asked why things happened and then tried to find a rational answer
“What is fundamental and does not change?”
Assumed that an order existed
Underlying principle or basic material is called arché in GreekPythagoras 580-500 BC
Invented mathematical notation
Developed system to express equations
Established quantitative calculations
Believed geometry and math could describe all truth and beauty
Truth is described by small whole numbers
Symmetry of the "perfect" body
Example today: Quantum chemistry
Developed a school and "ideal" society
Key geometric relationships
Pythagorean law
Golden mean
Principles of music

Greek Colonization in the Archaic Period

This is the Events of the 730s BC part 2 in our narrative. The Fan of History takes a look at what drove the Greeks to leave their mother cities and travel all ...

This is the Events of the 730s BC part 2 in our narrative. The Fan of History takes a look at what drove the Greeks to leave their mother cities and travel all over the Mediterranean looking for new homes. We look at the religion, the monetary gain, the conquests and everything else concerning the early Greek colonization movement in the Archaic Period (800-500 BC).
A critical look at the Oracle at Delphi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BobqeU_JxOY
Our show about Greece in the 9th Century BC (right before this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUing_14Qo
Please consider supporting our Fan of History effort by becoming a Patron here: http://www.patreon.com/fanofhistory
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About Greece in the early 9th Century BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUing_14Qo
The beginning of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 911 BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh6zyYssjn8
History of Assyria 3000-1000 BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28o-28fc-t8
The early Neo-Assyrian army (to 745 BC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVV-DDYbKQ
Discuss Ancient History and ask questions to real historians here: http://historum.com/ancient-history/
World Map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NlVs2ndVpA
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This is the Events of the 730s BC part 2 in our narrative. The Fan of History takes a look at what drove the Greeks to leave their mother cities and travel all over the Mediterranean looking for new homes. We look at the religion, the monetary gain, the conquests and everything else concerning the early Greek colonization movement in the Archaic Period (800-500 BC).
A critical look at the Oracle at Delphi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BobqeU_JxOY
Our show about Greece in the 9th Century BC (right before this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUing_14Qo
Please consider supporting our Fan of History effort by becoming a Patron here: http://www.patreon.com/fanofhistory
World Politics 800BC global overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hnvhIOP0nE
About Greece in the early 9th Century BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUing_14Qo
The beginning of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 911 BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh6zyYssjn8
History of Assyria 3000-1000 BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28o-28fc-t8
The early Neo-Assyrian army (to 745 BC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVV-DDYbKQ
Discuss Ancient History and ask questions to real historians here: http://historum.com/ancient-history/
World Map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NlVs2ndVpA
A music video tribute to Ashurnasirpal II, king of Assyria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dof6PuYsNr0
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During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of B...

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What the Ancients Knew - Greece

The Western world is built on the wisdom and traditions of the ancient Greeks, who uncovered the fundamental principles that established the basics of modern technology. Explore their contributions to geometry, astronomy, and physics and take a close-up look at how they applied their knowledge: Thales predicted an eclipse, Pythagoras discovered mathematical correlation between a musical instrument's string length and its tone, Archimedes developed laws of mechanics, and a group of 90 priests made well-informed educated guesses about many things.
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Greek Music of Byzantine Empire

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DNA clue to origins of early Greek civilization

The treatise On Ancient Medicine is perhaps the most intriguing and compelling work of the Hippocratic Corpus. The Corpus itself is a collection of about sixty . The Emerging of Medical.
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The treatise On Ancient Medicine is perhaps the most intriguing and compelling work of the Hippocratic Corpus. The Corpus itself is a collection of about sixty . ViolentAncient Medicine.

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Lecture 2 Early Greek City States, Government, and Alexander the Great

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During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of Being described a period roughly from 800-300 BC when many great teachers were alive and presenting consciousness-altering visions of truth, reality and meaning. An important addition to course material will be a consideration of the Eleusinian and DelphicMysteries and their relation to a new vision of consciousness.
As a course designed for beginning graduate work, The Birth of Consciousness in EarlyGreek Thought will focus first on the fragments of those early Greek thinkers whose efforts to explain the world gave us valuable clues to the beginnings of Western philosophy. Students will examine the fragments of three such thinkers: Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras. The desired outcomes will include a basic grasp of these fragments and their contribution to the history of consciousness. In addition, the final weeks of the course will examine several important dialogues by Plato to see how this later thinker filled out the earlier fragments to develop a new concept of what it means to be a conscious individual.
Richard G. Geldard, PhD — Dramatic Literature and Classics, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, Doctoral Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Author of ten books on Early Greek philosophy and the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.rgbooks.com

Website: http://www.uprs.edu
During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of Being described a period roughly from 800-300 BC when many great teachers were alive and presenting consciousness-altering visions of truth, reality and meaning. An important addition to course material will be a consideration of the Eleusinian and DelphicMysteries and their relation to a new vision of consciousness.
As a course designed for beginning graduate work, The Birth of Consciousness in EarlyGreek Thought will focus first on the fragments of those early Greek thinkers whose efforts to explain the world gave us valuable clues to the beginnings of Western philosophy. Students will examine the fragments of three such thinkers: Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras. The desired outcomes will include a basic grasp of these fragments and their contribution to the history of consciousness. In addition, the final weeks of the course will examine several important dialogues by Plato to see how this later thinker filled out the earlier fragments to develop a new concept of what it means to be a conscious individual.
Richard G. Geldard, PhD — Dramatic Literature and Classics, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, Doctoral Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Author of ten books on Early Greek philosophy and the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.rgbooks.com

Ancient GreeceHistory ChannelDocumentary (Engineering an Empire). Western Civilization has been influenced by many cultures, from Rome to America, but it was born in A,ncient Greece. Centuries before Julius Caesar conquered much of the known world, the Ancient Greeks were laying a foundation that has supported 3000 years of European history. Ancient Greece brings to mind philosophers like Aristotle and Socrates, Olympian gods, the beginnings of democracy, astonishing technological innovations, great conquering armies like those of Alexander the Great, and savage internecine battles, none more famous than the duel to the death between Athens and Sparta.
Greece is a story about the human drive to explore, to wonder, to be curious. Their ruins now communicate that drive. Over 1000 years, this strong and charismatic people strategically harnessed the materials and people around them to create the most advanced technological feats the world had ever seen.
From The Tunnel of Samos: a mile-long aqueduct dug through a large mountain of solid limestone, to Agamemnon's Tomb, to The Parthenon, this episode will examine the architecture and infrastructure engineered by the Greek Empire. Engineering an Empire is an excellent series and definitely worth watching.
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “GreekWays: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

Ancient GreeceHistory ChannelDocumentary (Engineering an Empire). Western Civilization has been influenced by many cultures, from Rome to America, but it was born in A,ncient Greece. Centuries before Julius Caesar conquered much of the known world, the Ancient Greeks were laying a foundation that has supported 3000 years of European history. Ancient Greece brings to mind philosophers like Aristotle and Socrates, Olympian gods, the beginnings of democracy, astonishing technological innovations, great conquering armies like those of Alexander the Great, and savage internecine battles, none more famous than the duel to the death between Athens and Sparta.
Greece is a story about the human drive to explore, to wonder, to be curious. Their ruins now communicate that drive. Over 1000 years, this strong and charismatic people strategically harnessed the materials and people around them to create the most advanced technological feats the world had ever seen.
From The Tunnel of Samos: a mile-long aqueduct dug through a large mountain of solid limestone, to Agamemnon's Tomb, to The Parthenon, this episode will examine the architecture and infrastructure engineered by the Greek Empire. Engineering an Empire is an excellent series and definitely worth watching.
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “GreekWays: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

What the Ancients Knew - Greece

The Western world is built on the wisdom and traditions of the ancient Greeks, who uncovered the fundamental principles that established the basics of modern te...

The Western world is built on the wisdom and traditions of the ancient Greeks, who uncovered the fundamental principles that established the basics of modern technology. Explore their contributions to geometry, astronomy, and physics and take a close-up look at how they applied their knowledge: Thales predicted an eclipse, Pythagoras discovered mathematical correlation between a musical instrument's string length and its tone, Archimedes developed laws of mechanics, and a group of 90 priests made well-informed educated guesses about many things.
Hosted by Jack Turner. Published by Discovery Channel, 2008.

The Western world is built on the wisdom and traditions of the ancient Greeks, who uncovered the fundamental principles that established the basics of modern technology. Explore their contributions to geometry, astronomy, and physics and take a close-up look at how they applied their knowledge: Thales predicted an eclipse, Pythagoras discovered mathematical correlation between a musical instrument's string length and its tone, Archimedes developed laws of mechanics, and a group of 90 priests made well-informed educated guesses about many things.
Hosted by Jack Turner. Published by Discovery Channel, 2008.

GreeksRomansVikingsThe Founders Of Europe - Episode 1: The Greeks - HistoryDocumentary HD. Ancient Greece, the cradle of modern Europe. Around3000 years ago, the cultural foundations of western civilisation were laid right here, on the shores of the Mediterranean. It’s the birthplace of democracy, where great thinkers forged the beginnings of scientific reasoning, where theatre was turned into mass entertainment, and where the Olympic Games began. Imaginative animation, stunning visuals and an entertaining narrative combine in an extraordinary exploration of Greece and the rise of an ancient super-power that would leave a permanent mark on society. GoodSBS documentary, from Germany, in German & Greek. Please be merciful with the parts where Greeks (who don't really look like Greeks but rather like Middle Easterns) speak German... :)
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

GreeksRomansVikingsThe Founders Of Europe - Episode 1: The Greeks - HistoryDocumentary HD. Ancient Greece, the cradle of modern Europe. Around3000 years ago, the cultural foundations of western civilisation were laid right here, on the shores of the Mediterranean. It’s the birthplace of democracy, where great thinkers forged the beginnings of scientific reasoning, where theatre was turned into mass entertainment, and where the Olympic Games began. Imaginative animation, stunning visuals and an entertaining narrative combine in an extraordinary exploration of Greece and the rise of an ancient super-power that would leave a permanent mark on society. GoodSBS documentary, from Germany, in German & Greek. Please be merciful with the parts where Greeks (who don't really look like Greeks but rather like Middle Easterns) speak German... :)
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

The treatise On Ancient Medicine is perhaps the most intriguing and compelling work of the Hippocratic Corpus. The Corpus itself is a collection of about sixty . The Emerging of Medical.
DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations. Researchers analysed genetic data from skeletons dating to the Bronze Age, a period marked by the emergence of.
The treatise On Ancient Medicine is perhaps the most intriguing and compelling work of the Hippocratic Corpus. The Corpus itself is a collection of about sixty . ViolentAncient Medicine.

The treatise On Ancient Medicine is perhaps the most intriguing and compelling work of the Hippocratic Corpus. The Corpus itself is a collection of about sixty . The Emerging of Medical.
DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations. Researchers analysed genetic data from skeletons dating to the Bronze Age, a period marked by the emergence of.
The treatise On Ancient Medicine is perhaps the most intriguing and compelling work of the Hippocratic Corpus. The Corpus itself is a collection of about sixty . ViolentAncient Medicine.

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Lecture 2 Early Greek City States, Government, and Alexander the Great

The Persians & Greeks: Crash Course World History #5

In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
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History: The Greek Empire Documentary on Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from ...

DNA clue to origins of early Greek civilization

DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations.
Researchers analysed genetic data from skeletons dating to the Bronze Age, a period marked by the emergence of writing, complex urban planning and magnificent art and architecture.
These ancient Aegean people were mostly descended from farmers who had settled the region thousands of years earlier.
But they showed signs of genetic - and possibly cultural - contact with people to the north and to the east.
Dr Iosif Lazaridis, from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, and colleagues focussed on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC, and the Mycenaean culture, which was existed across Greece from 1,600 -1,100 BC.
"They're important because they are the first known civilizations in Europe that had writing and a level of complexity that was not present in earlier cultures...It's always been a puzzle: where did these people come from and how did they create this amazing culture," Dr Lazaridis told BBCNews.
With ancient DNA we can now begin to answer this question."
Dr Lazaridis explained that most of the people who created these civilizations appear to be local - deriving between 62% and 86% of their ancestry from people who introduced agriculture to Europe from Anatolia (modern Turkey) in Neolithic times, starting from about 7,000 years ago.
This fits with previous evidence from ancient DNA studies, showing that there was a major migration into Europe from this region during the Bronze Age. These nomadic livestock herders from the Steppe had a major impact on the gene pools of Northern and Central Europe. But the influence of Steppe migrants on populations from southern Europe - including Greece - was much more modest.
The researchers don't know exactly when the northern and eastern influxes of people occurred, but both genetic components are missing from the stone age farmers who inhabited Greece during the Neolithic. This suggests that these later waves of migration arrived in either the third or fourth millennium BC - a time gap for which the researchers lack ancient DNA data.
Dr Lazaridis says that both waves of migration might have acted as "cultural disruptors".
"The migrants could be the bearers of innovation... a vehicle through which some new elements of culture arrived in Greece," he explained.
By contrast, the researchers found no evidence for proposed migrations to Greece from ancient Egypt or from the areas of the eastern Mediterranean occupied by the Phoenician sea-faring culture.
The work could also provide clues to the origin of Greek language. Like the majority of languages spoken in Europe today, Greek belongs to a family known as Indo-European. The members of this language family share common features of vocabulary and grammar.
But how and when Indo-European speech spread across Europe remains a subject of debate. Some scholars believe the languages were introduced by the first farmers migrating from the Near East.
Other researchers believe they were spread later, during the Bronze Age, by the herders who migrated west from the Steppe.
But the much more minor influx of Steppe people into Greece compared with northern Europe has led some to conclude that this migration could not have effected a change in language. This might imply that progenitors of Greek - and perhaps other Indo-European languages - were already established in the Aegean by the time the Steppe people arrived.
While the Mycenaeans are known to have spoken an early form of Greek, the earliest recorded language spoken by the Minoan people on Crete - known as Linear A - can be read but not translated. This implies that it belonged either to a distinct branch of Indo-European or to an entirely different language family.

Website: http://www.uprs.edu
During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of Being described a period roughly from 800-300 BC when many great teachers were alive and presenting consciousness-altering visions of truth, reality and meaning. An important addition to course material will be a consideration of the Eleusinian and DelphicMysteries and their relation to a new vision of consciousness.
As a course designed for beginning graduate work, The Birth of Consciousness in EarlyGreek Thought will focus first on the fragments of those early Greek thinkers whose efforts to explain the world gave us valuable clues to the beginnings of Western philosophy. Students will examine the fragments of three such thinkers: Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras. The desired outcomes will include a basic grasp of these fragments and their contribution to the history of consciousness. In addition, the final weeks of the course will examine several important dialogues by Plato to see how this later thinker filled out the earlier fragments to develop a new concept of what it means to be a conscious individual.
Richard G. Geldard, PhD — Dramatic Literature and Classics, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, Doctoral Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Author of ten books on Early Greek philosophy and the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.rgbooks.com

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Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring ...

Ancient Greek Music - The Lyre of Classical Antiquity...

This video features clips from 4 of my many albums of my of ancient lyre music, featuring both the actual surviving fragments of the music of Ancient Greece, as well as my original compositions for replica lyre, in a selection of some of the original Ancient Greek Modes...
My albums of ancient Greek-themed lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from all major digital music stores and streaming sites, including iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play - free PDF booklets of all the detailed album notes are available from my website:
http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/
For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "MusicalAdventures in TimeTravel", please visit my official website:
http://www.ancientlyre.com
Many thanks for watching!

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An Introduction to Greek Theatre

For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online...

An Introduction to Greek Theatre

For background detail on Greek theatre productions at the National Theatre, see our online exhibit http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/greek-drama-at-the-national-theatre/gQY_KfFn
This film explores the defining aspects of Greek Theatre. The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there. This collection features video about Greek theatre and productions of Greek plays staged at the National Theatre.
Featured in this film are experts Edith Hall, professor of Classics at Kings College, London, LauraSwift from the Open University, Dr Sean McElvoy from Varndean College, Brighton and actor Michael Grady-Hall from the cast of Antigone.
This film includes performance footage from the 2012 National Theatre production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, starring Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker in the title role.
This film was made and directed by ChloeWhite for the National Theatre.
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Early Greek Civilization

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Comparing Early Greek and Buddhist Thought

This is my second YouTube video, so it's a bit rough. Apologies in advance! Check out some of my later videos for more smoothness.
For a good intro to classical Greek philosophy see:
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The Beginnings of Greek Civilization

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During a period of history that the modern philosopher Eric Voegelin named The Great Leap of Being, a few thinkers on the fringes of the Greek world began to explore the nature of the cosmos and with it the nature of human being. These natural philosophers included Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, the latter being the first philosopher to take up residence in Athens. These thinkers were the most important of those who began to write and think about the cosmos using a new language, rejecting the mytho-poetic language of Homer and Hesiod. The books (or scrolls) written by these thinkers were circulated in the Agora, or marketplace, in Athens and stimulated the thought of Socrates and later his students Plato and Aristotle. The Great Leap of Being described a period roughly from 800-300 BC when many great teachers were alive and presenting consciousness-altering visions of truth, reality and meaning. An important addition to course material will be a consideration of the Eleusinian and DelphicMysteries and their relation to a new vision of consciousness.
As a course designed for beginning graduate work, The Birth of Consciousness in EarlyGreek Thought will focus first on the fragments of those early Greek thinkers whose efforts to explain the world gave us valuable clues to the beginnings of Western philosophy. Students will examine the fragments of three such thinkers: Heraclitus, Parmenides and Anaxagoras. The desired outcomes will include a basic grasp of these fragments and their contribution to the history of consciousness. In addition, the final weeks of the course will examine several important dialogues by Plato to see how this later thinker filled out the earlier fragments to develop a new concept of what it means to be a conscious individual.
Richard G. Geldard, PhD — Dramatic Literature and Classics, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, Doctoral Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Author of ten books on Early Greek philosophy and the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.rgbooks.com

Ancient Greece History Channel Documentary (Engineering an Empire)

Ancient GreeceHistory ChannelDocumentary (Engineering an Empire). Western Civilization has been influenced by many cultures, from Rome to America, but it was born in A,ncient Greece. Centuries before Julius Caesar conquered much of the known world, the Ancient Greeks were laying a foundation that has supported 3000 years of European history. Ancient Greece brings to mind philosophers like Aristotle and Socrates, Olympian gods, the beginnings of democracy, astonishing technological innovations, great conquering armies like those of Alexander the Great, and savage internecine battles, none more famous than the duel to the death between Athens and Sparta.
Greece is a story about the human drive to explore, to wonder, to be curious. Their ruins now communicate that drive. Over 1000 years, this strong and charismatic people strategically harnessed the materials and people around them to create the most advanced technological feats the world had ever seen.
From The Tunnel of Samos: a mile-long aqueduct dug through a large mountain of solid limestone, to Agamemnon's Tomb, to The Parthenon, this episode will examine the architecture and infrastructure engineered by the Greek Empire. Engineering an Empire is an excellent series and definitely worth watching.
......................................................................
The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “GreekWays: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

What the Ancients Knew - Greece

The Western world is built on the wisdom and traditions of the ancient Greeks, who uncovered the fundamental principles that established the basics of modern technology. Explore their contributions to geometry, astronomy, and physics and take a close-up look at how they applied their knowledge: Thales predicted an eclipse, Pythagoras discovered mathematical correlation between a musical instrument's string length and its tone, Archimedes developed laws of mechanics, and a group of 90 priests made well-informed educated guesses about many things.
Hosted by Jack Turner. Published by Discovery Channel, 2008.

GreeksRomansVikingsThe Founders Of Europe - Episode 1: The Greeks - HistoryDocumentary HD. Ancient Greece, the cradle of modern Europe. Around3000 years ago, the cultural foundations of western civilisation were laid right here, on the shores of the Mediterranean. It’s the birthplace of democracy, where great thinkers forged the beginnings of scientific reasoning, where theatre was turned into mass entertainment, and where the Olympic Games began. Imaginative animation, stunning visuals and an entertaining narrative combine in an extraordinary exploration of Greece and the rise of an ancient super-power that would leave a permanent mark on society. GoodSBS documentary, from Germany, in German & Greek. Please be merciful with the parts where Greeks (who don't really look like Greeks but rather like Middle Easterns) speak German... :)
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The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, "We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak." We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.
The Greeks are accused by some of stealing their achievements from Egyptians and Babylonians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. And that is the greatest irony: the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called “the examined life”.
As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, “Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre–Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behaviour, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.”
Classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its achievement, extended into history, is what defines the West and makes it distinct. What is valuable in the much abused Western tradition, hence the examined life, the pursuit of truth, the dialogue about the place of the individual in the larger group, comes from the Greeks. Humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility, all come from the Greeks.
The failings of the Greeks, including not living up to their own ideals, are the failings of humanity everywhere. But their ideals, still alive today, led to the recognition of a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without this insight, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality, and the liberal notion that all humans possess innate rights merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed.
(Bruce Thornton, “Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization”, 2002, "Defending the Greeks", PrivatePapers, 2005, Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 1998”)

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